I know faxanadu, that is what makes me think they will not do anything, but I wish they would offer some sort of storage solution. Even if they would just open loading from SD cards, that would be a start.

Storage with an HDD, loading from SD cards, something along those lines...seems like a no-brainer to me.

Hell, the memory expansion on the N64 was more of a risk, because it meant certain games didn't look as good or didn't even run without that add-on.

An HDD would only OPEN opportunities, unless of course games started REQUIRING the HDD.

Still, I don't think casuals wouldn't understand what a hard drive is and what it means for gaming. They'd be willing to drop 20-50 on one easy.

^ Yeah, but if Nintendo did make one (THEY WILL) they would have to make it cheap thus making it not such a big HDD.... And I don't really want a 200GB HDD, ~5GB is fine....

I only want usb hard drive or sd playback support.

I think that they might do both. Offer SD playback and usb HD, and then bring out their own, which if it matches the Wii, I would probably have to buy.